Like an underground river, the astonishing poems of Joseph Ceravolo
have nurtured American poetry for fifty years, a presence deeply
felt but largely invisible. Collected Poems offers the first full
portrait of Ceravolo's aesthetic trajectory, bringing to light the
highly original voice that was operating at an increasing remove
from the currents of the time. From a poetics associated with Frank
O'Hara and John Ashbery to an ever more contemplative, deeply
visionary poetics similar in sensibility to Zen and Dante, William
Blake and St. John of the Cross, this collection shows how
Ceravolo's poetry takes on a direct, quiet lyricism: intensely
dedicated to the natural and spiritual life of the individual. As
Ron Silliman notes, Ceravolo's later work reveals him to be "one of
the most emotionally open, vulnerable and self-knowing poets of his
generation." Many new pieces, including the masterful long poem
"The Hellgate," are published here for the first time. This volume
is a landmark edition for American poetry, and includes an
introduction by David Lehman.
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